Matisyahu's Blog

Weekends go so quickly – I wish I had a three day weekend because the first day off one is recovering from work which only leaves one day to actually do something. I’m still deciding whether I should go into the office or work from home – if I go into work I’ll have to take my scooter because the train is currently being replaced with a bus service but the problem with that is that they never arrive on time meaning it is more thank likely I’ll end up at work late.

I’ve just had a quick browse of the Mozilla downloads section and it appears that Firefox 129.0 is present before the official release tomorrow (7 August NZ time) – I’ve updated to it and everything is working great. Every release so far has resulted in an improvement in speed and responsiveness. There appears to be regular benchmarks being done on multiple platforms to narrow down performance regressions as well as comparisons with other leading browsers to see where improvements can be made (link).

There has been an interesting development in the Google DOJ case (link) resulting in concerns about how it will impact Firefox. I think what you’re going to see is that there will won’t be upfront payments but browser vendors will receive money from Google each time a user makes use of Google except it won’t be on the basis of whether it is setup as the the default search engine. The other thing to keep in mind is that Google makes open source community contributions (money and man power) so what you may see are regular donations to the Mozilla Foundation to maintain good public relations of being a positive open source citizen.